After twenty years, countless meetings, multiple commissions, endless studies, emotional testimony, and enough bureaucratic delays to qualify for historic preservation status, Miami-Dade’s Center for Mental Health and Recovery is finally moving forward. Unanimously. After hours of discussion and lots of personal sharing and patting each other on the back Tuesday, the Miami-Dade Commission voted 12-0 […]
Remember when Miguel Gabela was going to clean up City Hall? He was the reformer. The outsider. The guy who was going to expose the spending excesses, drain the Bayfront swamp, audit everything that moved and drag the ghosts of the Joe Carollo era into the sunlight. Good times. Now comes an awkward little press […]
Miami-Dade Commissioner Oliver Gilbert isn’t the only one who got to say “I told you so,” on Tuesday. And after Tuesday’s nearly unanimous vote to move forward with eminent domain proceedings against the owners of the Fisher Island fuel depot, it’s getting harder and harder to ignore what looked suspiciously like a long con from […]
The Miami-Dade School Board is about to take another step in what has become one of the most ambitious — and controversial — real estate deals involving public land in downtown Miami. Yes, another one. At Wednesday’s meeting, board members are expected to consider a series of agreements involving the Miami Omni Community Redevelopment Agency, […]
Ladra is raising her hand with a question. When you’re about to hand out a healthcare contract that could be worth roughly $3 billion over seven years, why exactly would you not spend $88,000 to make sure the math is right? That’s the dilemma facing the Miami-Dade School Board on Wednesday as members consider awarding […]
For the people constantly saying public education is the most important issue facing America, there sure weren’t a lot of people lining up to run the nation’s third-largest school district. Candidate qualifying ended Friday for the Miami-Dade School Board elections and the result was less democratic showdown and more administrative paperwork. Three incumbents didn’t even […]
There are still many unanswered questions The Miami-Dade County Commission is expected to finally approve the controversial Miami Center for Mental Health and Recovery on Tuesday after months of debate, delays and handwringing. Not because all the questions have been answered. Because the votes are there. And because Commission Chairman Anthony Rodriguez, who had previously […]
Miami-Dade County commissioners will be asked Tuesday to approve the designation of the fuel depot on Fisher Island as condemned in order to possibly begin eminent domain proceedings and seize a property they declined to buy at half the price it’s being sold for now. Welcome back to PortGate. This is about the fiasco over […]
If political campaigns are about optics, then David Jolly and Gwen Graham‘s first South Florida rally Thursday night offered a little bit of everything. Hope. Nostalgia. Democratic royalty. And just enough empty chairs to require some creative interior decorating. The event at FIU’s Graham Center — named after Gwen Graham’s grandfather, the late state Sen. […]
The filing deadline came and went at noon Friday and Coral Gables voters now know what November’s ballot will look like. And Mayor Vince Lago is probably sleeping very well tonight. Perennial candidate and conspiracy enthusiast Rip Holmes and attorney Laureano Cancio, who lost to Rhonda Anderson in 2025 with just 4% of the vote, […]